While this is happening more and more money is being spent online advertising. The balance of power is shifting.

Content moves online, ad dollars move online, and consumers move online. There is a major earthquake about to happen in media. So I for one would like to welcome our new media overlords, enjoy the future of online entertainment and media.

Chad Vader, the Sith lord’s less evil brother, is the day manager at a grocery store. Find out more about Chad Vader here. There is a rumored deal with Atom/MTV to take Chad Vader to the next level, not bad after 19 million plus YouTube views of the series.

Here is an example of what most folks think about online video. Poor quality, short length, funny animal video.

So its a bear not a cat.

Then we have big networks pumping their content online. Good quality, medium length, expensive production value comedy.
An episode of Family Guy from Hulu.com – NBC/Universals delivery method after pulling their content off of iTunes and YouTube.

And then finally a user generated video podcast (that has become a little more “corporatey” but still maintains its user roots). Incredible quality, long length, and inexpensive production value.

Click here to go to the latest episode of Diggnation. On the right hand side under video click the green download now button for HD h264 .mov Quicktime full screen glory.

FYI, Revision3, the production company for Diggnation and other shows, is using BitGravity as their HD Content Delivery Network.

To iPhone or not iPhone, that is the question;
Whether ’tis geekier in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of jealous colleagues and budget minded spouses,
Or to take arms against a sea of naysayers and Mac-haters,
And by opposing, end them with my YouTube,
pinch screen, visual voice mail device. To buy, to keep;
No more; and by to keep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand bad blog posts
That iPhone is heir to â€” ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To buy, to keep;
To keep the iPhone, perchance to dream of cover flow,
Google maps, and sexy styling. Ay, there’s the rub,
For in that keeping of the iPhone what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this EDGE network,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of battery life,
For who would bear the whips and scorns of no 3G,
no expansion card slot, or lack of flash support ,
Th’oppressor’s wrong, the proud geek’s contumely,
The pangs of gadget love, the lines at the store delay,
The insolence of office co-workers, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’unworthy takes,
When he himself might his tech dreams make
With an iPhone? who would carry this unlimited data plan,
To grunt and sweat under a 2 year contract,
But that the dread of something after AT&T,
The undiscovered version 2 from whose bourn
No true geek returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those Treo’s,
Blackberries, and Windows mobile devices we currently have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of 420×380 160dpi resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of Steve Job’s great pitch and moment
With this regard their current gadget, they turn awry,
And lose the name of action by camping out for 4 days.

Taco Bell’s latest ad campaign borders on blah. They spent who knows how much on a flashy website that has very little interaction (I can’t embed videos) but they upload their commercial to YouTube and get 325,000 plus views, tons of great comments, and a 4 out of 5 rating. Hmmmm $100,000 agency built website (just a guess, but anything is paying to much) versus free. I wonder what the traffic on their micro site looks like compared to the YouTube video page.

Attention massive companies! Take a lesson from how Jet Blue is handling their latest misfortune. You cannot buy your way out of problems any more. Open honest conversation is the only way to save your business.

The computer isn’t the only hardware device in the house that hooks up with your tv. StumbleUpon (a very cool random site recommendation service) is now offering users of the Wii Opera browser ways to find and watch videos. Based on their newly launched Stumble.tv video searching (or stumbling) service this is a very cool tool in a long line of stuff for the Wii.

So this happy go lucky, open source, consumer generated video fest has been fun but there is trouble brewing in shared video land. The askaninja.com guys are upset about myspace not allowing revver.com videos to be published on the site – askaninja makes ad revenue from hosting their videos on revver. The big question this brings up is how much do big companies want to share. Now that some of these sites are starting to generate revenue we could see more of this “censorship” between the big video sharing folks. Imagine if blogger.com only allowed google video or youtube videos to be posted on its blogs.

The lost remote guys wrote some good stuff on the whole “no more Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert on YouTube” situation. In the comments of their post Chris Rooney points out that Comedy Central has an embeddable player I can put on my blog but that it only last for 2 weeks and then goes away. Thats why people are still using YouTube.

I leave you with this (fully authorized clip) from a friend of thinkjose about the latest goings on in Boston. Make sure you enjoy it before Feb 17th.